Lot Essay
Jean Louis Bouchet horloger du Roi for the château de Bellevue in 1769, and worked in the rue Saint-Martin in 1789.
The C-couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.
The Goyer family specialised in clockcases and Jean Goyer (maître in 1760) and his father François (d. 1763) continued the tradition. Jean Goyer was the brother-in-law of René Dubois and they had close ties - their most celebrated collaboration was the monumental secrétaire at Waddesdon (G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London, 1974, no. 66).
The C-couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.
The Goyer family specialised in clockcases and Jean Goyer (maître in 1760) and his father François (d. 1763) continued the tradition. Jean Goyer was the brother-in-law of René Dubois and they had close ties - their most celebrated collaboration was the monumental secrétaire at Waddesdon (G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London, 1974, no. 66).